![]() ![]() ![]() Since the former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller in 2017 to investigate the 2016 Trump campaign ties to Russia, three more special prosecutors have been appointed, including two in less than two months to investigate two presidents that ran against each other in 2020 and may very well run against each other one year from now. Recent Appointments of Special Prosecutors These AGs do not farm out their burdens of accountability to special counsels as appeasements to politics or to optics in what may be illusory separations of Justice Department criminal investigations and criminal prosecutions. These AGs also stand above the mishegoss of bipartisan political parties. The “best” AGs like Robert Kennedy are not intimidated by politics or afraid of optics, let alone powerful criminals like Donald Trump. The erosion in faith in or legitimacy of the highest law enforcement officials in this country is not what our distressed politics need at this moment of democratic crisis as it only reinforces political partisanship. The former president’s third and final Attorney General, Bill Barr, should have been impeached for his political and corrupt intervention on behalf of Trumpian criminal allies and against his political opponents. In this era of polarizing politics and dueling presidential investigations, the reserve values in special counsels seem to be increasing while those of attorney generals seem to be decreasing. ![]()
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